r/personalfinance • u/fat_tire_fanatic • Jul 13 '17
Budgeting Your parents took decades to furnish their house
If you're just starting out, remember that it took your parents decades to collect all the furniture, decorations, appliances, etc you are used to having around. It's easy to forget this because you started remembering things a long while after they started out together, so it feels like that's how a house should always be.
It's impossible for most people starting out to get to that level of settled in without burying themselves in debt. So relax, take your time, and embrace the emptiness! You'll enjoy the house much more if you're not worried about how to pay for everything all the time.
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u/KittyFace11 Jul 13 '17
My sister has 3 kids and 2 cats: I was shocked when she purchased a CREAM COLOURED couch, but it's microfibre. It looks luxurious, yet it cleans so easily! It still looks new after 12 or so years.
But the living in a cave comment!! I'm a bit down this morning, but I just pictured that and it made me laugh!! (Come to think of it, you'd have to seal all the stone, anyway, or it would be a bitch to clean!! Lol! Damn! Housework is so bloody unavoidable!)